Experience is the knowledge or mastery of an event or subject gained through involvement in or exposure to it. Experience is like the root of an veteran tree. The more you are experienced the more you grow. Experience can only be gained through events of life. This is a collection of 110+ experience quotes and experienced sayings.
1. Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience. Paulo Coelho
2. Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. John W. Gardner
3. The only source of knowledge is experience. Albert Einstein
4. Experience is the teacher of all things. Julius Caesar
5. Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. Will Rogers
6. Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect. Vince Lombardi
7. Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. Oscar Wilde
8. Food is not just eating energy. It's an experience. Guy Fieri
9. Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward. Vernon Law
10. We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
11. Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. Aldous Huxley
12. We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. Khalil Gibran
13. For me, life is about experience and being a good person. Chris Hemsworth
14. A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. Mark Twain
15. Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills. Minna Antrim
16. Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. Henry David Thoreau
17. One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. James Russell Lowell
18. There's a vintage which comes with age and experience. Jon Bon Jovi
19. Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it. Stan Smith
20. If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon. Emil Zatopek
21. The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice. Frank McCourt
22. A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
23. Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced. John Keats
24. Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it. Louis-Ferdinand Celine
25. No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience. John Locke
26. Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience. Paul Cezanne
27. It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience. Immanuel Kant
28. Every outing is a learning experience. Drew Pomeranz
29. Life is not always easy to live, but the opportunity to do so is a blessing beyond comprehension. In the process of living, we will face struggles, many of which will cause us to suffer and to experience pain. L. Lionel Kendrick
30. For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
31. I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. Joseph Campbell
32. People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. Eleanor Roosevelt
33. When we shift our perception, our experience changes. Lindsay Wagner
34. A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience. Simon Sinek
35. I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it. Harriet Tubman
36. Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it. Steven Wright
37. It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. Abraham Lincoln
38. Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali. Salvador Dali
39. The noblest search is the search for excellence. Lyndon B. Johnson
40. It is not about gender, it is about experience, leadership, and vision. Angela Ahrendts
41. The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely. William Osler
42. In my experience, being busy and working hard is the key to sanity/happiness. Jemima Khan
43. The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time. Henrik Ibsen
44. Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life. Barbara De Angelis
45. Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life. Tony Robbins
46. The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences. Henry Ward Beecher
47. Judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement. Simon Bolivar
48. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. Albert Camus
49. If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful. Jeff Bezos
50. There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California. Edward Abbey
51. I don't have to have faith, I have experience. Joseph Campbell
52. All experience is an arch, to build upon. Henry Adams
53. To me the arcade experience is the ultimate gaming experience. Eugene Jarvis
54. We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience. George Washington
55. Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. Alfred North Whitehead
56. Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness. Stephen Fry
57. The reward of suffering is experience. Harry S Truman
58. Every day is a new experience and I take it as it comes. Zac Efron
59. Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience. Denis Waitley
60. It's a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve. Kendrick Lamar
61. Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy. Karl Marx
62. Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another. Nelson Mandela
63. Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant. Edgar Allan Poe
64. The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation. Isaac D'Israeli
65. Life experience brings out different emotions and different perspectives on things. I just want to be constantly evolving. Kiesza
66. Everybody's got one killer story. It doesn't take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience. Kevin Smith
67. Take a trip to the forest and experience the greatness of getting on your knees and picking your own food and going home... and eating it. Rene Redzepi
68. All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move. Alfred Lord Tennyson
69. To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. Saint Teresa of Avila
70. Being in love is the only transcendent experience. Armistead Maupin
71. Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience. H. P. Lovecraft
72. There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience. Archibald MacLeish
73. Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. Auguste Rodin
74. It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves. Andre Gide
75. Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. Oscar Wilde
76. Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald. Navjot Singh Sidhu
77. The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color. Hans Hofmann
78. My own experience suggests that where there is tourism, there are tigers. And that's the reality. Mohit Chauhan
79. Experience teaches only the teachable. Aldous Huxley
80. Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience. Jonas Salk
81. What is truth? Truth doesn't really exist. Who is going to judge whether my experience of an incident is more valid than yours? No one can be trusted to be the judge of that. Tracey Emin
82. The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
83. Characterization is integral to the theatrical experience. Robert Ludlum
84. Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play. Immanuel Kant
85. Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience. Blaise Pascal
86. True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes. Daniel Kahneman
87. Adolescence is a time in which you experience everything more intensely. Edward Zwick
88. I understand from experience that unity is easy to call for, but it takes the right kind of leadership to achieve. Steve Scalise
89. A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
90. Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others? Voltaire
91. What is the good of experience if you do not reflect? Frederick the Great
92. Every experience, good or bad, is a priceless collector's item. Isaac Marion
93. But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge. Muhammad Iqbal
94. Not to transmit an experience is to betray it. Elie Wiesel
95. I know from experience that you should never give up on yourself or others, no matter what. George Foreman
96. Thinking is not enough. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any... thing. William S. Burroughs
97. Rejection is the one constant of human experience. Howard Jacobson
98. Experience is what you get while looking for something else. Federico Fellini
99. Human experience resembles the battered moon that tracks us in cycles of light and darkness, of life and death, now seeking out and now stealing away from the sun that gives it light and symbolizes eternity. Eugene Kennedy
100. Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. Franklin P. Jones
101. When you lose, you learn a lot about yourself. That experience is important. Antonio Conte
102. Experience is a great teacher. John Legend
103. There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem. David Chalmers
104. I didn't think; I experimented. Anthony Burgess
105. Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority. Russell M. Nelson
106. Everything that we experience every day leaves a long-lasting impression. Pharrell Williams
107. Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. Truman Capote
108. People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves. Paulo Coelho
109. Be thankful for everything that happens in your life; it’s all an experience. Randy Pausch
110. Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced. John Keats
111. By seeking and blundering we learn. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
112. Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience. Victoria Holt
113. talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything. Patrick Süskind
114. No matter how much experience you have, there’s always something new you can learn and room for improvement. Roy T. Bennett
115. Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. Oscar Wilde
116. You need to screw up to learn. You need to experience to create greatness. Laurie Faria Stolarz
117. Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. Eckhart Tolle
